Why Does Everyone Have To Be The Same As Us?
The majority of people on this planet live through ego. They feel that they are themselves special, apart from the crowd in some way, but they aren’t willing to acknowledge other people’s special-ness. They are threatened by the people who are different from them – but rather than seeking to understand another person’s point of…
Full of Curious Life Force
I am going through changes and for some time I felt as if I was floating in space in some way, not feeling like doing anything, because it was not clear to me why to act at all. A whole old paradigm, so to speak, became obsolete and the new paradigm is unfolding still. I…
A Step Too Far…
It is 5pm in Spain and I am sitting outside on a terrace, enjoying a café con leche… I have been sharing my office space today with another Inglés; he has seemed to be very industrious on his computer, whilst drinking cervezas and smoking cigarettes… He appears relaxed; and he looks quite bohemian… He reminds…
Approaching Mabon and Embracing the Autumn Equinox
The Wheel of the Year is turning once again as we slip gently into Autumn and welcome the Mabon festival of the second harvest. While out in the car last weekend, we saw farmers busy tidying their fields, securing their crops, and carrying out general maintenance on trees and outbuildings. Once all of this busy…
Bereavement and Loss – Part 3 of 7
In this section I will look at how the work of Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross changed how we look at the grieving process. Dr Kübler-Ross, who pioneered methods in the support and counselling of personal trauma, grief and grieving, proposed a model of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance). This is actually…
So, Who is Mr Right Anyway?
I have been a tarot reader for 23 years now, and in that time I have had the honour of being privy to thousands of people’s hopes, dreams and deepest secrets. Many of my clients come to me for confirmation of what they already know, or they are at a crossroads and are stuck as…
Being Unloved is a Great Poverty
I am sitting in the hot tub outside my home in Berkeley, California, soaking in the delicious water that calms my body’s pain. I look up at the sky, stars pushing through the clouds and past city lights that obscure a few from my view. “You are a bloodless sky. You love without wanting,” I…
The Green That Overgrows
The red sun is painting the foliage at dusk Intensifying play reality The green that overgrows In the village of my youth Is the shadow Of the villagers’ lives Look! Look! The truck that you hear Struggling up the little hill Will soon appear Among the burning casuarinas. You may ask yourself: What does…
What is “Real Paganism” Anyway?
I recently read a blog post from a pagan who was very keen to assert her practice of “real paganism.” Now, she professes that most people who identify as pagan don’t do it properly. By that she means they don’t get out in nature, they don’t truly appreciate or try to help Mother Earth, and…
The Cycle of Life…
Anadi and I have just returned from a liquid lunch! We set off on an outing to visit the Castle… But after walking up the steep winding hill to the very top, we found we had arrived fifteen minutes after it had closed… Sundays in Spain are very ‘Sunday-ish’ indeed…Not much is open except for…
Bereavement and Loss – Part 2 of 7
In this section I will explore the feelings that we can experience following the loss of a person or thing that is close to us. It often results in a sense of grief or bereavement. This is a very natural response when something to which we are attached, disappears from our lives. We often associate…
We Circle Around Ourselves Until Landing in the Middle
Greg is his name. I meet him at the YMCA in downtown Berkeley, not far from home. He’s a trainer, and I go to him, thinking he can bring strength back to this broken body of mine. Instead, he becomes another angel in my long healing journey. Soon, Greg and I are visiting every healer…